raisa co chair updates

1.) I want to make the documentary!

2.) no camp darfur. :(

3.) sadness

4.) we need more people to table

5.) we need the flyers to be distributed or else we have wasted everyones time and money

6.) i am really excited about tomorrows speakout!

7.) I am so proud of everyones hard work!!

facebook images - stui

check out my facebook profile!!! i uploaded two of the the flyers and the shirt image onto a photo album entitled "darfur awareness week"

RC update - stui

oh, almost forgot:

so we talked with kathy a few weeks ago (anjana, chris, and i) and among several things, she told us about these "reconciliation camps" they have in rwanda, where they bring both survivors and perpetrators to discuss the genocide, and allow the truth to come out. but apparently, they are allowing us to bring ucla students to these camps over the summer. of course, we are all invited, but anjana and i have been trying to reach out the the school of film & television to bring students interested in making documentaries abroad as well. it's taking a lot of bridgebuilding, and i just wanted to keep you all in the loop.

they are also bringing some rwandan musicians to usc for a concert. it's going to take place over our spring break, so if any of you are interested, you're invited to both help out during that week, and to attend the concert. 

i think that's mostly it.

:D yayy

Finance Chair / RC Chair update - Stui

hey guys, sorry i haven't updated you all in a while, but i have a lot to update you on:

"stop genocide in sudan" shirts have been ordered in kelly green. We were trying to get them in by this week, but danäe's aunt says that because of the rush, she can only get them to us by this friday :/ while that's disappointing, danäe had the great idea of having people sign up to buy shirts. we can even allow them to prepay, in which case they'd only have to pick them up from us. however, please let everyone know, we're gonna have to sell them for $20 to make a decent profit. danäe's working on the order form. we have 75 shirts to sell.

we're also working on ordering rwanda coalition bracelets and nalgene water bottles for next quarter. BUT we won't be ablt to order them until the money from shirts starts rolling in. We're looking to make $200 profit from shirt sales. please ask your family/friends to support us!!!

we've bought candy!!! we'll be selling them as soon as we can get inspiring messages printed.

african channel has wired us money into our wamu account. if you (as a board member) need help accessing any money (wamu, soof, cpc mini, cac, and otherwise) let me know. i'm also gonna find out how to access our donations fund in sga. 

the flyers for the movie screening and benefit concert have been designed! i will post them on my facebook soon. you can save them from there if you wish (and make it your profile pic!!)

that's all for now. i'm in abnormal psych right now, learning about substance abuse. hope you guys are doing well :)

LWC Bev

-made sure letters were drafted and printed for Darfur Awareness Week :)
-helped chalk

Ackerman lottery

signed up for room lotter for ackerman/kerckhoff. hopefully we get something good this time!

Raisa Co chair updates

1.) Talked to Tents of Hope Head and he says he may have someone who can pay for our tent and supplies and have it shipped by next week for free. We just need to have a secure address to have it shipped to. I am thinking a dorm mailbox. It is just a duffle. (terry okayed it being paid for with some conditions that are no biggie)

2.) I called Terry today and she said she would let us know about the tent approval situation by the end of the day.

3.) pooja is willing to do spoken word at the speakout! we just have to finalize a yes to her ASAP! EPC get on that. 

4.) Africa channel is giving us 400 bucks for the film. 300 for the rights and 100 for the mics. They asked how much it would cost to have a banner up at the speakout tuesday. I need estimates fast!! 

5.) I sent stuart the africa channel logo that they would like on the flyer. remember it is SUPPORTED BY.. I also asked stuart about getting a check sent to us the fastest way possible??

6.) Waiting for joanne to respond about the film rights faxing? 

7.) need to make sure that we can set up the tents of hope either in bruin plaza on friday but hopefully on tuesday at the speakout in front of meyerhoff. 

8.) joanne secured Moore 100 i believe, we just need to get mics!!! hopefully we can use the funds and get reimbursed???

OERC to do list

coordinate the getting a projection machine for my DAC Awareness Week workshop

publicity update by Kristen

So we:

-designed fliers for fliering. put the order in yesterday.
-have design for postcards. need to talk to Joanne re: funds and ordering
-Tiffany went to SAP meeting and took fliers to give out, got names for people who will help out with publicity
-Allison wrote up chalking and classroom announcements. also has schedules for chalking/classroom announcements
-spoke to the guy at print run re: paper qualities and prices for 1 page color fliers.

i think thats it.

Inter-student group work--Chris

-Coordinating with other student groups to make sure DAC's 8th week events don't overlap with theirs. For now it's all been workin swell!

Publicity by Kristen

so Publicity is at a bit of a standstill until tomorrow late afternoon.

I talked to Tiffany, she is going to email me info slash call me after Event's has their meeting tonight.

Joanne is coming to the publicity committee meeting tomorrow night at 7pm. and we're going to rock it. and plot out:

-fliers, how many, how to distribute to SAP people.
-dividing up chalking, classroom announcements, who to hit up, ect.
-what we want on the post cards to give to Jessica.
and probably other things i just cant think of now because my brain is fried. un petit peu.

also, i posted on other Darfur groups on facebook about Darfur Awareness Week, so hopefully some more people will join the DAW at UCLA group on facebook.

i think thats it.

have a good one guys!

Beverly--LWC

Updates:
-revised ethnicity retreat presentation
-attended retreat
-compiling documents to educate and prepare new LWC head (in search)
-contacted Rohan ($5 spent for printing out letters to be payed back to Rohan)
-added all friends on face book to Darfur Week of Awareness event
-recieved letter from Chris S.-- editing it for week 7 and finding rep to send letter to

That is all for now...PEACE & LOVE <3

Chris's meeting with Terry update

Update from my meeting with Terry: She’ll let us know by the end of today whether Ken, the CSP Social Programs Director, will permit us to finalize a deal with the Africa Channel as a sponsor. She asks that we acknowledge AC’s support in our publicity by stating “event support by” instead of “event sponsored by”. She gives her permission, so we’re just waiting for Ken. Since AC’s typed proposal didn’t contain many concrete details (she had questions about what they wanted to do with the banner, for instance) she’d like us to keep updating her on things AC wants to do at the event.

For issues regarding further sponsorship (in case we want to pursue a deal asking for more money from AC): Terry would like us to always keep her “in the loop” and continue to receive her permission to enter into any further deals we might make with AC. We have to get her permission before finalizing any deal.

Also, she generally warned me about making deals we can’t keep or aren’t good for us (i.e. we get a lot less out of a deal than AC). Student groups have had a problem with this in the past. She said, however, that there shouldn’t be any problems since it’s not like we’re asking Budweiser to sponsor us.

-Chris

OERC Updates Anjana

-HSOAP finished!! well at least the teaching part! 27/30 kids got 100% on their quizzes and of the three that didnt get perfect scores, they only missed one! thank goodness! i would have shot myself....lol
-i bought 33 bracelets from DAC for the FHS students, i filled out a purchase order form for DAC at 105 Kerkoff for $66
-met with ISCAGI, going to start contacting film school with stuart
- rented Devil Came On Horseback for DAC Retreat

OERC to do list Anjana

-HSAOP week four
-start lobbying campaign
-rent the devil came on horseback from netflix
-get my retreat stuff done
-help raisa pick out social events
-go to SCOP meeting

Publicity Update

this week we
-got finance stuff to Joanne re:darfur awareness week
-got RSVPs
-contacted Jessica about publicity for Darfur Awarness week. left a message, havent heard back. will call again.

LWC Bev E.

- I am working on the Rwanda Collation Letter to submit to Stuart on (Thursday 2/7)
-Call for retreat RSVP
-received new letter for week 5 and 6 late... in revision process--> going to be used starting week 6
- working on revising retreat presentation (Thursday 2/7)
-Sent Dodo info about Darfurscores.org
** I will not be attending the Week 5 board meeting (e-mail sent to Chris and Raisa 3 plus days before)


Peace!

Co Chair Raisa UPDATE!

Waiting on 2 more RSVPs.

Emailed someone from Teach for America for sponsorship because i had been told TFA likes to give out money. 

called meals by genet. details below. 

called darfur shirts..they said they would call back. I called again. no response and I left a message.  but i will try again tomorrow.

sent out emails to some people on progress and waiting for their responses. 

i talked to Tim Noone on tents of hope and he said he will get back to me to discuss some new developments. I don't know what that would be but I was calling to inquire about pricing. Joanne seems to have gotten the best deal. 

i can't remember what else, i feel like there was something more. 

OERC updates cont. Anjana

-i also spoke to a mener of the UKS united khmer students (cambodian group) and approached them about speaking at DAC awareness week speak out, gave the contact info to tiffany man
-the HSAOP team has agreed to help the EPC with anything they might need for DAC awareness week :)
-am going to students coalition for peace mtg on weds. to ask for their help with DAC awareness week (tiffany asked me to)

OERC progress Anjana

-completed HSAOP week three
-emailed kristen HSAOP materials
-talked to hsaop team about presentation tommorrow at gen mtg
-got 5 rsvps for retreat
-began work on finding a lobbying team
-attended MM retreat
-john prendergast is available to come on sat april 11th AND sunday april 12th!!!

Mighty Mic and Retreat

Tallying retreat for attendants

Will reserve room tomorrow afternoon for movie watching

Reserved Devil on Horseback from NetFlix

Mighty Mic retreat went well. We'll be training interns to make phone calls to small businesses to solicit donations. Sponsorship is trying desperately to get money for concert. Starbucks is close to giving us $75,000 deal, and we need $350,000 in total by mid-February.